Non-spillable ship-table.



P. W. KEYMER G. I. BROWN.

NON-SPILLABLE SHIP TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16, 1913.

1, 1 1 5,21 s Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

l m mmm ATTORNEYS THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTOJJTHOR. WASHINGTON, D. C.

PERRY W. KEYMER, OF NEW YORK, AND

GEORGE I. BROWN, OF FLORIDA, NEW YORK.

NON-SEILLABLE SHIP-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 27, 1914.

Application filed July 16, 1913. Serial No. 779,363.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, PERRY W. KEYMER and GEORGE 1. BROWN, both citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and Florida, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Non-Spillable ShipTable, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in tables, and particularly to tables for ships, and has for an object to provide an improved structure in which the tossing of the ship will not tilt the surface of the table.

Another object of the invention is to provide a table for ships formed with a top arranged on movable supports, which in turn are controlled by weights, whereby as the ship tosses the weights will be actuated for maintaining the top of the table in a horizontal or substantially horizontal position.

In carrying out the objects of the invention, a suitable frame of any kind is provided designed to be connected to the deck of the ship in any desired way. Arranged at the base of the frame are guideways for weights which act on a pivotal pendulum structure which supports, through pivotally mounted and slidable links, the top. By reason of the pendulum structure and the weights, the top is maintained horizontalwhile the body is moved with the ship.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of an embodiment of the invention, certain parts being broken away for better illustrating the operating mechanism; and Fig. 2 is asection through Fig. 1 on the line 22.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals, 1 indicates end members or a body designed of a ship in any desired manner. The end members 1 are each provided with a run way 2 in which balls or rollers 3 and 4 are arranged. Each of these balls or rollers is provided with a rubber tire or covering so as to eliminate noise.

Pivotally mounted on each of the end in Fig. 2.

to be secured to the deck members 1 is a pendulum 5 provided with a weight 6 at the lower end. The pendulum 5 carries a cross bar 7 which is rigidly secured thereto- Pivotally mounted on the pendulum 5 immediately above the cross bar 7 are links 8 and 9. Pivotally connected with the outer end of these links are sliding and pivotally mounted links 10 and 11. The links 10 and 11 are provided with slots 12 and 13 for ae commodating the guiding pins 14: and 15. The slots are of greater width than the diameter of the pins so as to permit the pins to slide 'lt'reely therein and also to allow a certain amount of loose motion. The upper ends of the links 10 and 11 are pivotally connected with suitable braces or cleats 16 rigidly secured to the top 17.

Tn operation, after the table has been secured in place any tilting of the floor or support of the table will be taken up by the pendulum 5 and parts associated therewith. W hen the floor or support 18 tilts, the end members of the table which are secured to the floor or support tilt also, and as the pendulum under the action of gravity maintains a substantially vertical position, the table top 17, through the medium of the links 8, 9, l0 and 11, will be maintained in a substantially horizontal position, the parts then appearing as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. It is to be understood that owing to the loose connection between the links 10 and 11 and the end members of the table, the parts can readily assume the dotted line position shown Inorder to assist the weight 6, one of the rollers 3 and 4 will move down under the action of gravity and act against weight 6. When the ship tosses considerably one of the rollers will act against the pendulum for moving the same an appreciable distance out of vertical alinement, as shown in Fig. 2, as substantially the full weight of the roller is allowed to act on the pendulum. This will cause the cross bar 7 to press against the links 8 and 10 for elevating that side of the table. The opposite side of the table is braced through member 11 and link 9, link 9 moving away from cross bar 7 in order to allow the lower ends of members 10 and 11 to be properly positioned. If the ship should toss in an opposite direction link 9 would rest against the cross bar 7 while link 8 would be moved pivotally upward.

Having thus described our invention we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent a top, a pair of links pivotally connected with said top, each of said links being formed witha slot, a pin extending through said slot and into said body whereby said links are guided in their movement, a second pair of links connected with the outer end of said first mentioned pair of links, a pendulum connected with said body, means for piyotally connecting the inner ends of said second mentioned links with said pendulum, a cross bar rigidly secured to said p'enduluni immediately below said second mentioned links, and a weight arranged on the lower end of said pendulum. I

2, In a table of the class described, a fiXed body, a top, a pair or links connected with said body, a pendulum, means for pivotally connecting said links with said pendulum, a weight arranged on said pendulum for normally holding the same vertical, and Weights acting on said first mentioned Weights for assisting the same in holding the pendulum vertical. 1 I v 3. In a table of the class described, a body adapted to be fixed, a top, a pair of pivotally mounted links arranged near each end of said top, means for guiding said links in their v v l movement, a second pair of links pivotally 1. In a table of the class described, a body,

first mentioned links, a pendulum pivotally mounted on each end of said body, means connected to the lower end ofeach pair of said for-pivotally connecting said last mentioned links to said pendulum, a cross bar rigidly secured to said pendulum below said last mentioned links for limiting the downward movement of said last mentioned links, a weight arrangedon the end of said pendulum, and means for assisting said weight in maintaining said pendulum in a vertical po- In testimony whereof we have signed our names to thisspecific'ation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. c PERRY W. I QEYMER. 7 US GEORGE I. X BROWN. mark Witnesses to the signature of Perry W. Key'mer:

'W. A. MAcK' Y, H. D.- McGoNNnLL. Witnesses to the signature of George I. Brown:

L. WOOD, FRANK Woon.

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